Exploded Boat Victims Hard to Identify

by Imam Hanafi
Banjarmasin, (Antaranews South Kalimantan) - National SAR Agency (Basarnas) Kotabaru acknowledged it hard to identify the dead bodies of Setia Budi Motor Boats (PLM) passengers.

"Officers difficult to identify the dead victims, because some bodies were destroyed," said the Kotabaru Basarnas Officer Afrial via cell phone on Wednesday.

He added, PLM Setia Budi passenger ships that cruise the Port of Panjang to Geronggang, also in Kotabaru, was carrying about 16 passengers when it exploded around the port.

"Seven passengers died, two passengers survived and seven burns and now in Kotabaru General Hospital," he said.

Most pieces of the victim's body is now kept in the hospital mortuary  to be identified.

Head of the Kotabaru Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Tri Basuki Rahmat, accompanied by field officers, Sugeng, explains, seven passengers who get burned are now in intensive care in hospital.

Those who cared were Hardiansyah (40), Anwar Rahman (35), Aina Mardiah Iflal (11), M Zulfi (7), Sakrus (42), Sabransyah (41) and Nor Aisah (26).

PLM Setia Budi exploded at around 11 am on Wednesday (8/5). It was not certain source of the explosion, but provisional estimates, due to a leaking gas cylinder, as said by officer of Pelindo III Branch Kotabaru, Ludik Haibuan.

"The information is not necessarily true, there is a leaking gas cylinder exploded while workers turn on the boat engines.